North Carolina · Private foundation
Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $796k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $35k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $36k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $31k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $37k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $34k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $54,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Westover Church | $19,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Fcs Urban Ministries Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piedmont Wildlife Center Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Educate Tomorrow's Parents | $3,000 | 2 | 3% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $54,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Westover Church | $19,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Fcs Urban Ministries Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piedmont Wildlife Center Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Educate Tomorrow's Parents | $3,000 | 2 | 3% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New American Pathways Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oak Ridge Fire and Rescue Company Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Wild Neighbors Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Humane Society of the Piedmont Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation
- How much does Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation give?
- Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (31%), Religion (21%).
- Who are Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Duke University ($54k), Westover Church ($19k), Lees-McRae College Inc ($10k).
- Does Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation based?
- Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation is based in NC.
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